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[tree_and_leaf]

Name one character from any fandom I know and I will give you three facts about them from my personal canon.

Fandoms: Harry Potter, Doctor Who (though I reserve the right to do someone else here; I don't know canon well enough for Doctors 5-8 to be confident of being able to do their companions): I'd also be keen to have a crack at: Star Treks TOS and DS9, Dalziel and Pascoe (book canon only, obviously), Life on Mars, Patrick O'Brian, Swallows and Amazons, Narnia, and John Buchan's Richard Hannay-verse.

ETA: and the Wimsey-verse, of course!

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1 After the early years of her married life, she promised herself that she would never eat cabbage or lettuce when it could be avoided.

2 Sometimes she likes Stephen a lot more than she likes Jack, partly because she was never in love with him.

3 It's not been a bad life, but she hopes against hope that her girls will never marry a sailor.

[lilliburlero.livejournal.com]

She seems quite a melancholy character to me, despite references to good humour and cheer. I'm thinking maybe of that passage in The Yellow Admiral where Diana explains that sex is supposed to be fun -- of course, it's rather cleverly handled, being reported speech and pillow talk at that; one's not sure how much of it is accurate, how much is Diana being bitchy, and how much is her paying Stephen a post-coital compliment that she knows he will hardly want to acknowledge to himself but will probably rather relish. But up until that novel I thought that Sophie rather enjoyed Jack's clumsy vigour (& in other realms of life than the sexual) and it's rather saddening to think that she's actually often dismayed by him.
I often wonder as well what Sopohie's take is on the process that is slowly, and inexorably, throughout the series, turning her into a version of her mother.

[tree_and_leaf]

I feel slightly sorry for Sophie: she always struck me as someone who spends most of her time making the best of things. Isn't there a point earlier in the series where it's hinted that she doesn't enjoy sex? Though I think she is very fond of Jack in other respects. But it's difficult, as we see so little of her: I don't think O'Brian really knew her, either.

[lilliburlero.livejournal.com]

She's always characterised as slightly prudish, I think, though prudish compared to Diana rather than prudish by the general standard of early nineteenth-century womanhood. I found that conversation memorable and startling, I think, because it reveals Jack as rather a selfish lover, whereas in every other way he's most unselfish; though, as I say, it's cannily filtered through Diana and Stephen who are both sexually generous (to one another) and in their own ways very self-centred.
I don't think O'Brian really knew her, either.
Though oddly, she isn't undercharacterised, for all that.